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Thursday, October 6, 2011

One of App Engine’s most requested features has been a simple way to develop traditional database-driven applications. In response to your feedback, we’re happy to announce the limited preview of Google Cloud SQL.
You can now choose to power your App Engine applications with a familiar relational database in a fully-managed cloud environment. This allows you to focus on developing your applications and services, free from the chores of managing, maintaining and administering relational databases.
Google Cloud SQL brings many benefits to the App Engine community:

The service includes database import and export functionality, so you can move your existing MySQL databases to the cloud and use them with App Engine.
Cloud SQL is available free of charge for now, and we will publish pricing at least 30 days before charging for it. The service will continue to evolve as we work out the kinks during the preview, but let us know if you’d like to take it for a spin.

I am no genius, but I see MAMP as a means to run PHP on the GAE. MAMP is a server thing that can be run on an OSX Desktop to test run PHP stuff like WordPress. If it will work on a Mac, I bet my ear hairs it will work in the Cloud. Just Google ' MAMP ', they have a Pro & Free bundle to download. Also, if anybody really knows how to use this xCode thing, it seems to be successful in digesting about any program I slip into it, and spitting it out as another in a different language if I need it. If I can do it, anybody savvy in this can!!! Really excited about all this; I was just fixing to dump money into AWS 100%. Now I can have an option. Cool stuff!